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Examples of swivet
swivet
Sister George is in a vicious swivet because her role is to be edited out of the show.
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Well, it is true the only way to get the provision nixed is to get the GOP in a swivet to nix it.
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The newest crash threw official Washington into a fresh swivet of air-safety hearings and investigations.
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That's what has the calculator crowd in a swivet in Raleigh.
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Tokyo is in a swivet over Ceausescu's abrupt cancellation of a visit to Japan that had been planned for early this month.
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Written by Pinter in 1958, but opening on Broadway last week, The Birthday Party is certain to evoke in audiences another tantalized swivet.
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But it's Huntsman's fellow conservatives who are in a swivet over all the attention he's gotten since arriving home from China on April 30.
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The Democratic Party is in a swivet over remarks Hillary Clinton made about the second brother, whose triumph in the tumultuous year 1968 was undone by his June assassination.
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The advertising world is in a swivet because familiar mass-market brand names such as Pampers and Marlboro are suddenly reeling from low-priced generic competitors.
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- A panic or extreme discomposure; "it threw her into a swivet"
- A state of condition of haste, flutter; extreme discomposure or distress; irritation exasperation annoyance
